Dutton Adult, September 1981. First American. Hardcover. First US edition in very good dust jacket. White cloth spine with brown lettering & brown paper covered boards. Tanned end pages. Foxing to top edge & fore-edge. Also four brown specks top edge. Text without markings. More
Penguin USA, September 1999. First American. Hardcover. This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante and..... More
CASTLE BOOKS, January 1967. Hardcover. Reissue in good dust jacket with tanning/darkening of spine & rubbing to front panel. NOT price clipped. Original price ($5.00) on front flap. Yellow paper covered boards with black lettering on spine. Foxing/darkening top textblock edge. Clean interiors without markings. Solid. More
Herder and Herder, 1971. First American. Cloth. First edition in mildly edgeworn jacket with a few creases front panel at top. Tanned spine verso. NOT price clipped. Original price of $5.50 on flap. Brown cloth with gold lettering. Olive green end pages. Previous owner's initials & a date inked bottom..... More
Purdue University Press, June 1991. Hardcover. This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by..... More
Paragon House Publishers, January 1988. Paper Back. Clean interiors. Otherwise well worn with dog-eared corners, sticker residue, dust stains, foxing & darkening from exposure to sunlight textblock edges. Foxing to verso of cover pages front & rear. Elsewise, foxing to blank pages opposite both front and back. (502 pp.). More
ST MARTIN'S Press, January 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Darkening & wear to edges. Clean internally. No markings. More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
E.P. Dutton, October 1977. Trade Paperback. More
The Friday Project, May 2014. Cloth. A biography of Borges, by his translator. Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a widow, with a son in his twenties, was eleven..... More
Everyman's Library, September 2008. Hardcover. A new anthology of classic ghost stories--the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format. The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The..... More
NYRB Classics, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as..... More
Thunder's Mouth Press, November 2002. Paper Back. A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), February 2005. Trade Paperback. Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show.--The New York Times Book Review One gorgeous read. --Stephen King A New York Times Bestseller Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War..... More
